While the fall season is just now upon us, Spring 2014 Fashion Week presented the trends that will define the upcoming ready-to-wear season. With that, Pantone, the authority on color, released its semi-annual prediction on the ten hautest hues. As a rainbow descended upon the spring runways, designers displayed a balanced palette to showcase both soft pastels and muted tones alongside vibrant, vivid brights to create a colorful equilibrium. We saw a spectrum of shades from bold, brilliant blues and cheery, sunny yellows to cool, icy pastels.

While you await the return of warmer weather, begin curating a closet rife with spring essentials including these colors you'll be crushing on come spring.

Bold Blue (Fendi)

Embrace the blues! More muted than its electric cobalt cousin, the vibrant hue of dazzling blue is set to be Pantone’s number one color of spring with over 25 collections showcasing the shade during Fashion Week.

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Chloe

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Jenny Packham

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Vera Wang

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Purple Haze (MaxMara)

A purple haze descended upon the spring runways at MaxMara, Cushnie Et Ochs, House of Holland and more to make sure this royalty worthy shade reigned supreme this season.

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Cushnie Et Ochs

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House of Holland

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Giles

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Tickled Pink (Helmut Lang)

Cotton candy colors are the season's hottest hues with Helmut Lang and Preen thinking pink and parading clouds of bubblegum, rose and carnation down the catwalk.

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Roksana Ilincic

Emilia Wickstead SS 2014

White Out (Jason Wu)

A flurry of white head-to-toe ensembles paraded down the catwalk including that of Jason Wu to prove the crisp color is here to stay for spring.

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Rachel Zoe

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Calvin Klein

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Derek Lam

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Metallic Gold (Diane von Furstenberg)

The runways heat up for spring with molten hot metallics as designers put the Midas touch on everything.

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Reem Acra

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Altuzarra

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Dries van Noten

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Bold Black & White (Victoria Beckham)

It’s true opposites attract, as the classic color combination of graphic, high-impact black and white proves its staying power in the collections of Victoria Beckham, Ralph Lauren and Narciso Rodriguez, to name a few.

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Ralph Lauren

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David Koma

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Narciso Rodriguez

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Citrus Orange (Tommy Hilfiger)

Orange may not be the new black, but designers like Tommy Hilfiger punctuated their collections with pretty pops of citrus via splashes of tangerine and persimmon.

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Monique Lhuillier

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Ralph Lauren

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Tibi

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Icy Pastels (Zimmermann)

While spring is traditionally a time for florals and muted hues, icy cool metallic pastels made their mark on the runway for 2014 with designers like Zimmermann showcasing shiny satin and shimmery iterations, giving pastels a fresh feel this season.

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Honor

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Rag & Bone

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Tory Burch

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Enviable Green (Alberta Ferretti)

Say goodbye to 50 shades of gray and spring into the season with variations (albeit not quite 50 shades) of green. Signaling fresh renewal, the color of the season shows up ingrass, moss and sage hues for a true palette cleanser.

Megan Correia is a freelance fashion, beauty and lifestyle writer and editor extraordinaire hailing from Canada. After packing her designer bags and moving to the other side of the world on Australia’s Gold Coast, Megan received her Journalism degree to put her fashion knowledge and gift for the written word to good use. While always perusing the latest and upcoming fashion and beauty trends, runway collections and style stars of the season, Megan’s flair for fashion sparked a whirlwind expensive love affair with handbags and now considers herself to be a true bag snob. When she’s not trying to break the record for most Louis Vuitton bags owned, you can find her creating conversation on Twitter and Instagram.